When we founded our family company Kavanlar Construction, Turkey was going through difficult times, just like today! In our 40-year story in the construction sector, which started in 1978, we have proven our trust in our country by delivering more than 15,000 houses.
40 years ago, the goals we set for our company became our path. When we look at today, we see how accurate, achievable and rational the goals we set were. If you have a goal, it means you have a road to travel and a destination to reach.
Although the 1999 earthquake was a black year for our country, the goals of our company became even sharper with this sad event. We, as Kavan Yapı, had to be a brand that gives confidence to our people, touches their lives with houses where quality stands out and shares their happiness! For this reason, we invested all our strength in Kocaeli, which has brought so much to our family and our company, in order to heal the wounds of Kocaeli after the earthquake. In the process that started with the construction of permanent housing after the earthquake, we contributed to the reconstruction of our city with more than 9,000 houses and 500 villas.
While rebuilding the city of Kocaeli, we invested $1.5 billion as a company and built hospitals, hotels, shopping and congress centers in our city. Today, with the strength we received from Kocaeli, we continue our investments and projects in Istanbul and Cyprus! In Istanbul, we started and delivered many projects simultaneously, making $500 million in a short time. In Kadıköy, one of the most popular districts of Istanbul, we will start mass housing projects in different parts of Istanbul in 2017, with the encouragement of the projects we have developed to respond to the demand for luxury apartments and residences within the scope of urban transformation.
In addition to our ongoing mass housing and villa projects in Cyprus, we aim to increase our $500 million investments in this region to a total of $1 billion with new projects!
In the future, our company, which aims to exist in different regions in our country and the surrounding geography, aims to touch the lives of people from different religions and cultures and to be a partner in their happiness, aims to be one of the strongest companies in our country in the sector in the next 10 years, but our only love is to give strength to our country and nation, which is our main purpose, and to continue to serve.